Dec 6, 2012 · A Terminal is your interface to the underlying operating system via a shell, usually bash. It is a command line. Back in the day, a Terminal was a screen+keyboard that was connected to a server. Today, it is usally just a progam. You can open it via the utilities part of the apllications menu, or press Alt + F2 and type gnome-terminal.

Aug 21, 2018 · When I make some changes to the shell/bash behavior, such as setting up an alias, is there a quick command to reinitialize the terminal window instead of closing and opening a new window?

How to rename a file in Terminal? [duplicate] Ask Question Asked 12 years, 4 months ago Modified 3 years, 1 month ago

Is there a simple command to display the total aggregate size (disk usage) of all files in a directory (folder)? I have tried these, and they don't do what I want: ls -l, which only displays the s...

The graphical root terminal job will be both unsuspended and disowned by the non-root terminal, automatically. In short: sudo -H gnome-terminal ^Z exit But suppose you wanted to keep using the original, non-root terminal too. Then you could run bg N, where N is the graphical root terminal's job number, to resume the job in the background.

Oct 5, 2020 · I need a command to list all users as well as commands to add, delete and modify users from terminal - any commands that could help in administrating user accounts easily by terminal.

Jun 24, 2015 · I have Ubuntu on my machine and I am running awesome window manager on top of it. How do I check which terminal I am running? Is there a command for it?

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Aug 8, 2011 · I have got the directory /home/user/oldname and I want to rename it to /home/user/newname. How can I do this in a terminal?

Jun 10, 2014 · How do I exit an SSH connection? Two ways: closing the shell session will usually exit, for example: with the shell builtin command, exit, followed by Enter, or Ctrl - d, (end-of-file) in the case where you have a bad connection and the shell is unresponsive, hit the Enter key, then type ~. and ssh should immediately close and return you to your command prompt. The first …